"gone in 60" is pissing me off

[Dionysus]

Can someone please help me here. This is the first movie I've had this problem with and I think I've tried everything and nothing has worked. My problem is, when I play the dvd everything is how it's suppose to be but when it's finished encoding I'm losing picture off the left and right sides not getting everything in the picture. I've tried different aspect ratio's(not too drastic though) and I've tried to crop and nothing seems to work, it seems to me that that's the way that it was decrypted cuz even when I play it back without being encoded it still has the sides cropped off so I'm losing picture etc.

hope someone can help, thanx.

[MxxCon]

maybe you ripped wrong video stream?
4:3 video stream that was marked as 16:9?

[Dionysus]

why would a movie do that though. Like what makes this movie so much more special than every other movie hence the fact that it's really 4:3 ratio but it display's a 16:9 ratio. Just a question to further my knowledge of DivX and encoding all together.

BTW, it worked. Thanx.

[diji1]

why would a movie do that though

Beats me. :\

Ive had a few like this as well, cannot remember the actual titles though, sorry - i'd be damn interested to know as well.

[Dionysus]

okay just another question to further my knowledge. What is the difference between Soft, Sharp, and Linear settings when encoding. Does it set itself for the movie when you load it. After I do the compressibility check and I go back to encode it, will it automatically set that for me for the type of movie or what. Cuz I usually choose soft bicubic just cuz that's what I"ve had success with but will someone tell me the difference in quality between the three and for what types of movies I use each of them.

I know some of it's probably in the guide but I like to read things from different views other than the basic. So please don't answer if it's just going to be, "look in the guide."

Thanx ppl.

[UHT]

from the upcoming Gordian Knot FAQ

Q: Can I change the resizing method that Gordian Knot sets ? What is the difference between bilinear, soft bicubic, neutral bicubic and sharp bicubic resizing ?
A: Yes you can change the resizing method Gordian Knot uses. Bilinear resize compresses better than all the others but edges on objects in the film are fuzzier. Sharp bicubic resize has sharp edges but does not compress as well but obviously looks better. The other two settings are in between these two extremes. Keep in mind that Gordian Knot will usually choose an appropriate resize method so it may not be wise to make a change from a bilinear setting all the way to sharp bicubic for example.
As a rule of thumb, maximum filesize with sharp bicubic will be 30-40% higher than with bilinear, the others lie in between... meaning for e.g. if you get a comp-check-perc of 50% with sharp bicubic you might reach about 65% with bilinear. The picture will be more blurred but the codec macroblocks will be less visible